Altera Corporation and ARM announced a long-term agreement to expand their strategic partnership for embedded software development tools for SoC FPGAs. The expansion of their ARM Development Studio 5 (DS-5) Altera Edition toolkit now includes the following: ARM Compiler 5 and ARM Compiler 6 providing the only build tool chains specifically designed to optimize software for the Cortex A9 and Corex-A53 processors in Altera’s SoC portfolio; and debug support for ARM Cortex-A53 quad-core processor in Stratis 10 Soc, including FPGA-Adpative Debug capabilities for removing the debug barrier between the multi-core system and FPGA fabric.
Additional resources:
Choosing the Right SoC Architecture for Your Application
Architecture Brief: Altera SoC FPGA-Adaptive Debug
Honestly, I don’t really know much about ARM and its mbed OS. But based on what you mentioned that it is designed to reduce energy consumption (low power energy), I feel that this surely is something that would benefit the IT industry and business in general. Not only would companies be able to save on energy costs, they also would be able to maximize the features of this operating system. I will be reading more about ARM and mbed OS for additional learning. Thanks.